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is an unquoted HTML entity. Replace with corresponding character.</h2>
<h3 id="problematic-code">Problematic code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="SC1109.html#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">foo</span> <span class="kw">&amp;</span><span class="ex">amp</span><span class="kw">;&amp;</span><span class="ex">amp</span><span class="kw">;</span> <span class="ex">bar</span></span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="correct-code">Correct code:</h3>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb2"><pre class="sourceCode sh"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb2-1"><a href="SC1109.html#cb2-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">foo</span> <span class="kw">&amp;&amp;</span> <span class="ex">bar</span></span></code></pre></div>
<h3 id="rationale">Rationale:</h3>
<p>There is an unquoted HTML entity, such as <code>&amp;amp;</code>,
<code>&amp;gt;</code> or <code>&amp;lt;</code> (instead of
<code>&amp;</code>, <code>&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;</code>) in your
code. This usually happens when copy-pasting from a web site that has
mismanaged its code formatting.</p>
<p>You should go through the entire script and replace HTML entities
with their corresponding characters.</p>
<p>Don't rely on ShellCheck to detect all of them. ShellCheck only warns
about certain cases in certain contexts, while this issue tends to
affect the entire script.</p>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions:</h3>
<p>If you want to run a command called <code>amp</code> after
backgrounding another command, add a space:
<code>foo &amp; amp;</code>.</p>
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